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Is it the weekend and I didn't know it
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29/07/2008 01:46:43
 
 
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28/07/2008 19:58:09
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
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>Pertti,
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>Given that smartphone adoption is not very high yet (some 20+% of U.S. phones), you may need to wait for a few years until the adoption rates are sufficiently high to justify the effort and expense of creating web apps.
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>Apparently there are now >650 million cellphone users in China where smartphone clones of the iPhone apparently cost around $100. Some authorities predict that China will start to drive a lot more of IT's direction as prosperity continues to increase.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit, and this would be just history reversing itself. When the "Western World" became prosperous enough, it took the technological and innovation lead from the Chinese, who had been the first to develop all kinds of applications for gun powder, paper, typesetting, silk, etc.

What comes around goes around.
Pertti Karjalainen
Product Manager
Northern Lights Software
Fairfax, CA USA
www.northernlightssoftware.com
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